Research on environmental aspects of retention/release of pollutants in soils and sorbents. What should be next?

Avelino Núñez-Delgado

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118593

Research on environmental aspects of retention/release of pollutants in soils and sorbents. What should be next?

Environ Res. 2024 Mar 4;251(Pt 1):118593. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118593. Online ahead of print.

Author

Avelino Núñez-Delgado¹

Affiliation

¹ Dept. Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Univ. s/n, 27002, Lugo, Spain. Electronic address: avelino.nunez@usc.es.

PMID: 38447607
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118593

Abstract

Although studies dealing with adsorption/desorption (and/or retention/release) of pollutants present in environmental compartments is a classical field of research, recent papers are focusing on some weak points of investigations and publications within the area. In addition, an increasing number of works are being published related to new possibilities and alternatives in this kind of research works, many of them in relation to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Considering the existence of eventual controversies, eventual mistakes, and the convenience of suggesting alternatives to go ahead in the future, in this work, after taking into account some relevant publications in the previous literature, a simple workflow is proposed as a kind of protocol to revise successive steps that could guide the direction to follow when programing research dealing with the retention/release of pollutants in soils and sorbent materials.

Keywords: Adsorption; Artificial intelligence; Desorption; Soil; Sorbents.